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Iliad
Book 17, Line 715 by Samuel Butler (English)
Ajax answered, "Menelaos, you have said well: do you, then, and Meriones stoop down, raise the body, and bear it out of the fray [ ponos ], while we two behind you keep off Hektor and the Trojans, one in heart as in name, and long used to fighting side by side with one another."
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